Professional Certification for School Principals: Approach of a Competence Based Profile for Education Quality Improvement

The Need for Curriculum Leadership to Sustain Systematic and Collaborative Curriculum Design Practices

“…With educational decentralisation gaining momentum, including in TVET, and the resulting shift in responsibilities and roles played by all stakeholders, there is increasing pressure on the academic managers of educational institutions to achieve better educational outcomes (Dinham, 2005; The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2011; Gajardo & Carmenado, 2012). Academic managers are increasingly expected to move beyond the traditional administrative role, attending more to their role as curriculum leaders: planning educational programs, maximising the learning experiences of students, and attending to external and internal curricular influences (Darling-Hammond, Meyerson, LaPointe, & Orr, 2009;Dinham, 2005;Fullan, 2007;Lattuca & Stark, 2009;Neumerski, 2012).…”

Students’ curiosity profile in excretion system topic taught using authentic inquiry learning

“…It is an important element for human life as it can shape superior human resources in the future (MacCann, Fogarty, & Roberts, 2012;Pop & Giurgiulescu, 2015). Improvement of superior human resources in the future is vital to improve the quality of education, one of which is by improving the quality of learning (Artuner, Uzun, & Ilbars, 2012;Gajardo & Carmenado, 2012;Reisner et al, 2017). Learning is an effort in the delivery of knowledge (Cannady, Vincent-Ruz, Chung, & Schunn, 2019), organizing and creating a learning environment system with various methods (Falloon, 2019;Sanchez & Weber, 2019).…”

The Role of Job Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Mediating theEffect of Teacher’s Certification on The Teacher’s Performance in Gorontalo Elementary

“…It is changing the roles and responsibilities of all actors of education, in particular the role of school principals and teachers, so they invented a system of professional certification as a strategic tool for the improvement of individuals who can be a positive influence on performance in order to improve the quality of education. The proposed model is designed in a generic way so that it can be adjusted to different national realities (Gajardo, 2012).…”

“…Research related to the effect of the certification of the performance of teachers has been done by previous researchers. Gajardo (2012) in his work examines the professional certification for school principals found that the system of professional certification as a strategic tool for the improvement of individuals who can be a positive influence on performance in order to improve the quality of education. In another study, Sarjono (2013) also examines the influence of professional certification of teachers on the motivation and performance of the teachers find that there are significant impact of teacher's certification on teacher performance.…”